Election Experts And Officials Gather At Hoover For 2024 Vote Postmortem

Ben Ginsberg is featured in an event recap from The Hoover Institution describing a 2024 postmortem conversation on the 2024 election.

Participants acknowledged major successes by election officials in delivering a generally smooth experience to voters in 2024, with few systemic failures recorded. The consensus was that the direct voter experience remains positive. But participants acknowledged—despite the absence of postelection challenges to the results’ accuracy—that public trust in the electoral system lags, shaped more by disinformation than by the reality of election administration. Participants also wrestled with the distinction between citizens expressing belief in the trustworthiness of their own local elections based on their personal experience but still not having trust in the national system as a whole.

Participants emphasized that trust is most readily achieved through operational excellence—smooth, transparent, and efficiently run elections. A number of individuals added that extensive public outreach and targeted messaging campaigns are essential to building public confidence in elections.

Read more at The Hoover Institution.